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Are offline updates going to be the future?

I use PCLinuxOS as my primary Linux OS. They are a bit conservative to adapt new updates until they are sure of stability because of rolling nature. KDE is still at 5 there. Heard about Neon and wanted to try KDE 6. I find that they have adopted Windows style approach to updates where we need to reboot to apply the updates and...

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

If you’re on KDE using Discover for updates, the default on a lot of distros is to apply updates on reboot, but you can change this under the Software Update section of the System Settings app. I think it’s not a bad idea; I’d rather have a bit of controlled downtime than risk borking my system.

I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that. (programming.dev)

Imagine your friend that does not know anything about linux, don’t you think this would make them not install the firefox flatpak and potentially think that linux is unsafe?...

PlantPowerPhysicist , (edited )

In defense of this warning, when I first put my application on Flathub, I had it because of how file i/o worked (didn’t support XDG portals, so needed home folder access to save properly). It did actually motivate me to get things working with portals to not request the extra permissions and get the green “safe” marker.

A lot of apps will always be “unsafe” because they do things that requires hardware access, though, so I could see them wanting something more nuanced.

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

Live like Gentoo, cook everything from scratch

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

Wow, sounds like anyone over a certain level of wealth should be institutionalized for their own protection and prevented from having influence over society and the economy.

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

The fruits are kinda blue when cut open, and you can’t really eat them, but they can be turned into wine. My pet theory is that the ancient fruit in Stardew Valley is based on it.

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

In my case I had another WM installed (iceWM, I think it was there by default?) and did the upgrade from there. Unfortunately it does seem that if you try to upgrade from within KDE it will crash part-way (I used zypper dup and it failed).

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

their search function also returns primarily random, unrelated videos… I think they just don’t like people deciding what they look at

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

On my PC at home I’m running KDE Plasma on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with two monitors: 1440p 240 Hz, 4k 60 Hz. Both are connected via displayport to an RTX2080. It works perfectly fine for me.

A while back, I used Linux Mint on the same system and it was a headache, where it would sometimes boot to a blank screen and I would have to restart a random number of times before it would work. I never did figure out the underlying cause, it just went away when I changed distros for other reasons…

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

I also hate how every time I accidentally open Edge it shits a search bar onto my desktop

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

When does this take place? I just looked at my hosts file and the lines

::1 twitter.com

::1 www.twitter.com

are still there??

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

I hope it comes out soon - I’m still using my Fairphone 2 but it’s really time for it to retire

PlantPowerPhysicist ,

I’ve had it since 2016, so it’s close to 7 years now. I replaced the screen and battery on it, but it has been pretty solid. Actually, uptime is something that’s an advantage for self-repairable stuff: when the screen needed to be replaced, it still worked enough to use, which I did until the replacement arrived. Takes a minute to swap the screen and then it’s running again.

I’m based in Germany so I only used it in the US when traveling. Maybe the 5 will be the one where they decide to cover the US officially? It seems like there’s more attention to repairability than there was 7 years ago…

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